Boyfriend disputes murder charge against a mother, 16

Babies having babies results in this sad loss of life.

I really think if the mother did that her 1yr baby its really sad. I dont care if she was only 16 and the baby was ill. that is no reason to kill your child. I was 16 when i had my first child and I could never do a thing like that. I think the mother need to go to jail and do jail time for killing her son. he did not ask to be born if you had any idea of doing this you should have never laid down and gotten preg. just to kill an little child. please think before any of you young mom get preg. if you all can handle all the illness and good health problem

Bad headline, one would think the boyfriend was the killer. the mother admitted killing the infant. period.

As for the mother, lets not make a victim of her, she killed her baby because her baby was sick and needed attention. sick sick sick....

How come this low life scum isnt in jail for rape, the girl was like 14 when she got pregnant.

That is just terrible, how can someone hurt let alone kill a child and thier own it just makes me sad. If this girl killed her own child she is pathetic and GOD sees all and she will get her Karma. I am just disgusted people are sick. A child is a blessing my son is my world if anyone ever harmed my child i would hurt them not a second thought.

The entire thing is a terrible tragedy, but it is sad to think that this 16 year old girl who is accused of killing her own child, is also pregnant with another child. Parenting isn't playing house, it's hard and stressful and taxing physically and emotionally. What 16 year old is fully ready to cope with those pressures. I hope she gets some serious help.

wait..is she pregnant again? this girl is laughable.

Truong's attorney, Edward P. Ryan Jr., said today that her client was subjected to a lengthy interrogation without her lawyer or legal guardian --Where was this attorney, legal guardian or parent when she was having sex?

She's no more guilty than I am. The police railroaded this "confession" sure as the sun comes up in the morning.

I think that premeditated murder is an unforgivable crime. Now the fact of the matter is that we do not fully know if the mother planned on killing her child or if this was an accident. The mother is only sixteen and should not have had a child yet, let alone another one on the way. Me personally I think that you should have a license to have children like you would get a license to be married or to drive. That way this kind of problem wouldnt happen. But if the mother did intentionally kill her child or this was an act of Negligence I think that she should be imprisoned and have the child that she is currently pregnant with Taken away because she is obviously not stable enough to start a family.

Lets not forget the police could have talked her into saying she did it even when she didn't - you say anything when your distraught and her child had just died. The police have a way of saying you did it, you know you did it, just admit it and you will be forgiven etc... if some one does this to you hour after hour after hour and you are out of your mind with grieve you may say anything to shut them up. ( I seen that movie) its seems to me that someone in that bed might have accidentally rolled over and smother the child without knowing it. I find it hard to believe a mother carrying another child would just up and kill her child. wait for the autopsy. Remember people "Judge not yet ye be judged". Things are not always as they seem. and if she did kill the child she needs some serious help and so does the child she's carrying. I still say lets wait for the autopsy, meanwhile I pray for her and her family.

Hmmm...boyfriend of mother who is NOT the father of the baby is in the same room with the baby and the mother is pregnant with current boyfriend's baby...could be the boyfriend eliminating the child from a previous relationship....maybe I watch too much real crime TV but sounds like he might have implicated himself as a possible suspect. Not to mention the girl is 16 on on her second child. As a poster said; where are the statutory rape charges? I feel there is more to this story than meets the eye.

This girl had a right to not have her name published. I'm pretty shocked that just because her 17 year old boyfriend mentioned her name, that it's become open public knowledge.

If it turned out that the police coerced a confession out of an innocent girl, then I expect there to be some significant public outrage over their tactics.

All in all it's a very sad story.

I was 16 when I had my son....but it wasn't until 20 years later I'd like to ring his neck!

I don't think she did it....but we'll see!

i personally know the bf of thu nga and i have seen her take care of her baby boy.. she is a very VERY good, kind loving mother with a very supportive bf. but i just got updated news from her cousin, thu nga finished court and is found NOT GUILTY.

Jonathan, how on earth are you going to make people get licensed in order to have kids? Getting your driving or marriage license is 100% choice no matter what. You can get pregnant by accident very easily.

I agree with MeMe. Poor little girl and her child. I pray for her and her family.

if she was 14, then he was 15, no rape bc they are both minors. people please wait for the autopsy before you start labeling and judging this poor girl. as hard as it is for SOME of you to believe, some cops will do anythign to solve a crime. interrogating a minor w/o a legal rep or a guardian, that confession is thrown out before its heard....

Whatever happened to "innocent until proven guilty," people? Although the circumstances of the baby's death are definitely suspicious, the news story gives other pieces of information that could possibly lead to an outcome other than "the mom did it"... such as:
- completely accidental suffocation from sleeping in a bed with an adult, large pillows, blankets, etc.
- SIDS (at 1 year of age, it's absolutely still possible)
- fatal allergic reaction to the whole milk the baby drank (and dairy is a major cause of disease in children anyway) or anaphylactic shock from the Tylenol
- cardiac / respiratory arrest from the use of a nebulizer -- a VERY dangerous stimulant to the central nervous system, especially in babies!
I sincerely hope that the autopsy reveals the correct cause of the baby's death, and that the policy conduct a fair and unbiased investigation. Doesn't sound like that's happening, though... she's already being tried in the court of public opinion, that's for sure.

1) Both the girl and her boyfriend are under 18, so I don't see where rape charges come into play. He is 17 now, maybe he was still 16 when she got pregnant. Who knows and who cares. You people need to stop speculating.
2) It is certainly a possiblity that the confession was coerced and/or untrue. Regardless of whether the girl was old enough to be a mother blah blah blah, we have laws in this country to protect people. She should have had a lawyer or a parent with her.
3) If there wasn't anything suspicious about the death, she wouldn't have been interrogated like that. There were obvioulsy signs it was homocide. My nephew accidentally suffocated in bed at 11 weeks old and my sister was never treated like that/interrogated because it was obviously a horrible accident.

I hope they catch whomever hurt that baby. Only time will tell what happened here.

that was a bad choice to murder your own blood kid that is pretty sad

Being a mother is the hardest job out there.......................but probably the easiest to get

Shari, I agree with you 100%, I just think if you are not an adult you should not
have children at all. They should make it a law that children under 18 or 21
should not have baby. Honesly speaking for all my classmates I just think
21 is not even an adult yet, you have to finish high school, college and most
of college takes about 4 year to finish which is most of us would be 22, that's considerate an adult to me. Stricter law help society.

It seems many of you did not read the full article.
Typical_White_Person, for one. The girls's boyfriend is not the father of the baby that died, he stated they have been together for 7 months. So she was certainly not 14. Perhaps the father of the deceased baby should be tried for statuaory rape, but not her current boyfriend. He also stated she is pregnant with another child, his son.

Whether she is guilty or not is for a jury to decide AFTER they have heard the evidence. All you guys know is what you read in a news article and you've already got her tried, convicted, and burning in hell.

She is 16, it is just as believable that she was stressed and killed her baby as it is that she was coerced into saying she did it by the police. If she did do it then she should pay the price, but it would be a real tragedy for her to be punished if she is innocent, since she's already lost her child.

The baby was sick and had asthma or bronchitis...he was having trouble breathing. We are not talking about a healthy child here, where nothing else could have gone wrong. The autopsy will give a better idea of the baby's cause of death.

Quite possible that the boyfriend and the baby were sleeping on the same bed/couch and the boyfriend rolled over and sufficated the baby by accident. It always worries me when parents bring their babies to bed with them.

May we offer more compassion than judgment in the midst of this tragedy...may true due process allow the truth to be revealed.

Should the Boston Globe be printing the young mother's name?
Although she has been charged; she is still a minor.

Yet another example of the cultural differences being observed in this country. Where are the parents?!?! Given this example, the GRANDPARENTS would be about 30. Anyone see a pattern here? Feel bad for the child but hope that the family appreciates the taxpayer funded hospital costs/autopsy/funeral/court costs.

Poppadoc may be the only poster here with a brain, kudos to you sir. So you people will hang someone because of a newspaper article? No more innocence until proven guilty? And the boyfriend is not the father of the baby, there goes your rape theory. Open your eyes people........

MeMe, you are the only making any sense here. There was kid in the news who "confessed" to killing his sister, when in fact someone else committed the crime. The kid admitted to "hating" his sister and they ran off with it. The police had to eat crow when the evidence showed a friend of the family killed the girl after breaking in over night. They should worry about finding the truth rather and their law enforcement and legal careers.

Let hold off accusing this young lady. The polices can be quite corrupted and because she is young and naive...they might have forced her to admit to the crime. So just chill out for those that are disgusted with her...she is just a child too....have some compassion and sympathy. Lucky she is not one of your daughter...or else, you will be begging for mercy too. So quit judging on this poor girl...and go get a life for yourself.

What the hell are u talking about Neil Dexter? Of course there is innocense until proof of guilt. That is a presumption the STATE give you. But for the rest of us fed up taxpayers we are allowed to believe what our eyes tell us and make an opinion. As for the bf, regardless of whether he is the father of Khyle he is still the 17 year old father of this 16 year old girls unborn baby. Who carries this burden? We do, the state, the taxpayers. Those of us with common sense know this "family" will burden us all with their poor decision making.

Wow, based on the level of intelligence on this page, it seems like there are a whole lot of parents out there who never should have had children. Nice to know a blog of a story leads everyone to conclude that "obviously" there was a homicide. Because the police are always right.
Reassuring to know there are so many geniuses reading along and figuring out exactly what happened. Guess I'd better get out of this area before the big brains collapse on me and I suffocate. You'd all be arrested for homicide.

A 16 year old girl and a 17 year old boy have a 1 year old child... He should be in jail for statutory rape. She should go to prison for the rest of her life for murder. The girls parents (allegedly, she wasn't hatched) should be tarred and feathered for being such poor parents.

i would question whether vasquez is telling the whole truth or not. hard to believe mom would do it. also she reacted as if she were innocent.

Throw her in a womens prison and let them handle this scum

Are either one of them legal American citizens, I ask the question because I don't want to pay for their inprisonment if indeed either one of them are guilty.

I don't think she did this. I seen cases where the person being interrogated ends up confessing to something they didn't did. I believe she is INNOCENT.

Public school sex education in action....2 clowns playing with fire and NO common sense of their issue....sad- sad-sad....result, one innocent little baby murdered!!

Being a single mother of 4 I can say that motherhood is hard work. However this is a 16 year old girl who's life is over and she has to carry this with her for the rest of her life whether she is found guilty or not. People should hold off their nasty opinions until the truth comes out. I truly feel for this baby as well as this girl and her family. For those of you worrying about who is paying the bills for the autopsy etc.-----Shame on you !!! This is a tragedy !!! Where is your compassion? Let it be a member of your family and watch your opinion change with the quickness!!!

whenever i read a horrible, unfortunate story like this i remember that we do not all have the same amount of resources available to one another. resources such as a proper education (including sex education), a loving responsible and supportive family, reasonable health care etc... are not available to all of us equally. so we all sit here and judge this girl and how she made a horrible decision. and she definitely did. but it's obvious in cases like this that there is a lack of coping skills, support, education and understanding of consequences and the result is inconceivable for most of us. if we can't do anything about restoring self esteem in young girls, making people responsible for themselves and giving everyone an equal opportunity for a proper education then PUT THE MORNING AFTER PILL ON THE SHELVES!!

Hey jdsbc98 did I say anything about who is paying for these children? Direct your anger somewhere else. I was talking to the people who want to hang this girl without a trial. Maybe if you read what I wrote in context to what was written before me you'd understand instead of presuming something. You are throwing out things I never even talked about. Very strange. Also ,use your spell check.

wow you guys saying she is not innocent u don't know that she was a really good mother i was with her in school untill i moved she loved her child so don't say she didn't i don't believed she suffocated him with a teddy bear i am 16 and prego with a 18 year old guy baby and this is no rape charge so there is no charge with nga troung and her boyfriend so people come on now wait till the autopsy and i know she is innocent

This girl looks like she is 12 in the picture. I don't know if she did it or not but what I do know is that it would be VERY hard to roll over and smother your one year old son. At one they are ussually rolling, crawling and tring to stand and walk. A typical baby at one is usually 20-30 pounds. I have four children and all of my children were in bed with me at one point or another. Mostly because 3 have asthma. Running that neb every four hours alot easier when the baby is right there. When my kids had bad colds they all looked like there eyes were sunken in or really buldging because it hurts to breathe. Relax on this girl and wait for the answers before you judge.

Vasquez said that he was not Khyle's father, and that he and Truong had been dating for seven months and she was pregnant with his son

#4: Read the entire story before you post an idiotic comment like this. It's stated right there that he wasn't the father of the baby that was killed.

16, with a one year old and pregnant again? I understand kids will be kids, but where were her parents? There are other options rather than that pill, (which can be skipped) She should have been put on a more permanent bc as soon as she gave birth at 15.

You people making excuses for this girl are absolutely rediculous. She confessed to suffocating her baby. You don't confess to that unless you did it. Think about it. A girl MURDERED a baby. She confessed to it. What kind of idiot reads that and says 'the police must have made her admit to something she didnt do.' Don't pray for this girl. Lock her up.